Provide all federal procurement/contracting office, small business office including SBA, and senior leadership across all agencies training on "effectively removing barriers impacting small business success."

Have the SBA pay for small business legal cost to defend a size protest. This will encourage the agency to improve it's rules and understanding of how small and large businesses work together to be both profitable and productive suppliers to the government.

Limit federal employment to no more than 20 years of service for employees without commerical work experience. Require all federal procurement/contracting office, small business office including SBA, and senior leadership across all agencies to have a minimum of 5 years of commercial/industry experience.

Your agency’s Office of Hearings and Appeals will not review an appeal where the contract has been awarded [13 C.F.R 121.1101(b)]. To correct the errors an SBA size determination in such a case the small business must proceed to Federal District Court (and incur additional legal expenses). In dismissing an appeal without review, the SBA lost accountability for its personnel who made the size determination and put additional
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The $27.0 Million Size Standard and New Focus on Multiple Award Contract Vehicles. As the Federal Government moves toward awarding large-scale multiple award contracts while minimizing single award vehicles, businesses just surpassing size standards are forced to compete with much larger companies in order to secure these vehicles and maintain their business base. These vehicles have exceedingly high dollar thresholds
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Include in the performance standards for all federal procurement/contracting office, small business office including SBA, and senior leadership across all agencies the requirement "effectively removes barriers impacting small business success."

Increase periods of performance and/or award terms for small business contracts to allow small business time to mature and grow.

Moving towards shorter periods of performance, as the DOD is doing now, will not increase competition and lower costs. It will only increase costs and make it more difficult for small businesses to grow.

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Remove from federal procurement regulations all "lowest common denominator" type regulations and give small businesses the benefit of the doubt. Ensure that federal procurement regulation actually achieve the intent behind the rule.

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Spend more effort on removing regulations from the FAR/DFAR than the effort spent adding to them and trying to manage government contracts according to them. Have government agencies apply common sense and sound ethics vice the present level of reliance placed upon the FAR/DFAR driven bureaucracy.

Make government small business offices and agency leadership responsible for success of small business contracts for the government agency rather than just repsonsible for tracking/meeting set-aside goals.